Donald Trump's problems with the law have certainly heated up in the past couple of days. Here's what we've learned:
- On January 6, Donald Trump was desperate to march on the Capitol with the mob, but the Secret Service directly disobeyed him and refused.
- Surveillance video shows a Trump aide moving boxes out of a Mar-a-Lago storage room prior to the FBI search in August and then moving them back in after the FBI left.
- The Justice Department has told Trump that they don't believe he's returned all the documents he took from the White House.
- A federal judge has ordered Trump to provide a deposition under oath in the case of E. Jean Carroll, who claims that Trump raped her in a dressing room in the 1990s.
And all this is in addition to Trump's problems with both the New York attorney general (tax fraud) and the Georgia attorney general (election fraud). Things are not looking good for the former president.
Yeah, but does anyone really think this will prevent him from running for president and stealing the next election (if he loses - a big if!). I don't. Chaos ensues. 2024 - 2025 are going to be hell in America. Probably well into the 2030's too. Biden should pull Trump's Secret Service detail the moment he is charged with a crime. Why should he have guards when he is a criminal?
Being charged and being convicted are two quite different things. I want to see DT’s insane political efforts stopped cold asap but better to maintain our standards while working toward that goal.
Big deal. Hunter Biden lied on a form!
Like +25!
And also, HER EMAILZ!!!
It's all a witch hunt--send money NOW or they'll go after YOU!!!
"Surveillance video shows a Trump aide moving boxes out of a Mar-a-Lago storage room prior to the FBI search in August and then moving them back in after the FBI left."
This simply misstates the linked article and should be corrected. The article clearly states that security footage shows the employee moving boxes out and in of the storage room before and after the issuance of the DOJ subpoena in May, not the execution of the August search warrant. As Emily Litella might have said, "That's very different." I hate be fair to Unser Drumpfenfuhrer, but facts are facts. Well, for a dwindling number of us anyway.
Thanks for the "Akshully..." As we all know, moving stolen items months before a search warrant implies very different criminal culpability than moving them just a few days before. It's why all the bestest criminals move their stolen stuff around as soon as they get it, rather than waiting a few months.
As I understood it, the whole point of the unannounced “raid” was the suspicion that documents had been hidden. The footage is evidence that he was, in fact, hiding documents. So if his defense is he wasn’t aware that he had classified documents (that they had been packed by staff and various other excuses) this footage would be evidence mens rea, that he knew what they wanted and attempted to hide it.
Trump is safe from any criminal charges, because he can terrorized the jury members. Even the threat of such terror will put of all decent people from serving on th ejury.
He can also terrorize law-enforcement people and judges, gives him pretty good protection against civil suits too.
I've been reading fairly carefully and I still think there no evidence that Trump actually wanted to go to the Capitol and join the armed mob.
There IS evidence (Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony) that a former Secret Service agent who Trump had elevated to a White House desk job, claimed that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol and the Secret Service was against the idea. To put it differently: a Trump crony says Trump wanted to be a hero. Uh huh.
And the hits keep on coming, with the Supreme Court telling Trump to take a hike with his classified documents appeal.